Caleb Lee

Good to know that Fox segments determine our foreign policy as well as domestic, and provide most of the cabinet appointees.

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up.

"But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.

Jeff Bezos’ wealth grew by $24 billion *yesterday.*

Meanwhile, the VA now is asking for donations so veterans can *eat.*

www.va.gov/northern-ind...

Honest to god this makes me want to move to the countryside and raise goats.

Not only does no one have a plan to push back against the RW campaign to destroy social trust, WE CAN'T EVEN BRING OURSELVES TO NAME IT. I fucking despair.

Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?, by Jelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, Max Tani Anatomy of a credibility crisis

Holy shit. Friends, here is a panel on the question "why don't Americans trust the media?'

I scrolled ... scrolled ... increasingly amazed ... scrolled ...

Nope. No one so much as *mentions* the 6-decade, billionaire-funded campaign by the right to destroy trust in media! Not even in passing!

Must read thread. People are going to be throwing out wild accusations. Counter with facts.

Deplatforming Nazis is so successful that Musk purchased Twitter to replatform them.

one of the few kinda nice things about this period of time is that it's revealed, often surprisingly, which influential political figures actually believe in something

Send a case of whatever he drinks to all the D caucus.

@jon_snow_420 god: i have made Mankind angels: you fucked up a perfectly good monkey is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety 18:54 • 28 Oct 15

just shared this in a group and realised it’s the anniversary of this absolute s tier tweet by @jon-snow-420.bsky.social

YouTube video by Jacob Geller Fear of Depths

Gotta go to bat for @jacobgeller.com brilliant essay "Fear of Depths." It completely rewired my brain and how I think about dungeons in ttrpgs.
youtu.be/7MOKTU9tCbw?...

Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright

• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied

we live in a society where we pay police $200k a year to violently assault poor people who aren't able to afford food, and also defunding the police is supposedly the extreme position?

Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS

THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS

when it comes to Confederate statues, you gotta melt the shit down or otherwise fuck it up so badly it cannot be repaired

bc if there is even a possibility that it can be restored?? these motherfuckers are gonna put it right back up at the earliest opportunity

Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself Grokipedia, the copycat of Wikipedia launched by Elon Musk isn’t just a string of AI generated slop, it is a weapon. The launch of "grokipedia" is a calculated, strategic escalation by the billionaire...

I wrote about how "Grokipedia" is a new front on the war against reality itself. It's an attempt by the oligarchic class to seize the means of knowledge production itself and create a weaponized unreality.

www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...

Because the idolize said stereotypical movie villains.

don't let them make you think this is something you need.

The Nation story on publicly financed campaigns

The answer to corruption is publicly financed campaigns.

This should be the biggest takeaway from NY’s mayoral race.

Thanks to public financing, corrupt oligarchs are about to lose the mayoral race.

Our piece for @thenation.com based on our new book MASTER PLAN — pass it on: LeverNews.com/book

Church feels different when the priest has to go “hey before we celebrate the Eucharist, uh, ICE was spraying tear gas like 800 ft from our parking lot yesterday, so we need to talk about our plan if/when they come back”

Sexual predators gotta look out for their own

Starving can cause chronic illness and disabilities.

Malnutrition is not to be trifled with.

Cutting off SNAP funding will cause people to suffer. Some will get ill. Some may die.

There’s no excuse for this. 40 million people rely on that program.

It’s a cull.

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm o...

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.

By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social
(Published Oct. 2024)

This isn’t even the full Wikipedia list:

There is a shocking amount of critical infrastructure maintained in total by the Army Corps of Engineers. Most Americans have no idea.

If the govt starts jacking with it for the lulz, sh*t will collapse and Americans will die. Let’s be real about this.

Luckily they've had supplemental funding for quite a while

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation. "Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies. Text and image generation Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

Three Years After Trial Launch, Ireland Is Making Basic Income for Artists Program Permanent Several years after launching a trial, Ireland is set to make its basic income for artists program permanent starting in 2026.

Meanwhile, in actual civilization: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...